I was going through some old links I had saved for later and I came back to this tweet (it’s never X and thus never a post) from Derek Comartin of CodeOpinion.com. While I’m partial to Comartin’s position (effectively domain knowledge is more valuable than experience with a particular framework/tool/library), there was a surprising amount of disagreement in the replies. Part of this is because Twitter is a bad place for adding qualifiers (like both sets of skills are important, and both can be learned on the job in any job), but the prioritization was revealing about both how a lot of people seem to think about their jobs in tech, how they think that fits into the bigger picture, and forces some uncomfortable observations on whether or not that’s true.
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